Threat Actors Are Using Google Ads to Launch Phishing Attacks

Year after year, phishing tops the list of the leading causes of data breaches. Afterall, a threat actor’s job is made much easier if they can get an authorized user to visit a malicious website on their own accord. Once a user has accessed a malicious site, they could potentially be exposed to a zero-day exploit that targets the browser, or perhaps a malicious site looks exactly like a legit website and harvests credentials. Or maybe the malicious site pretends …

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